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Article: Mother and soldier: raising a child with a disability in a low-income military family.
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- Exceptional Children
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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Although many American families struggle to manage both parenting and employment, the additional time and attention required to parent a child with disabilities complicates the task considerably (Booth & Kelly, 2004; Dodson, Manuel, & Bravo, 2002; Fallon & Russo, 2003; Innocenti, Huh, & Boyce, 1992; Lee, Sills, & Oh, 2002). This article analyzes the efforts of six low-income mothers to balance their responsibilities for children with disabilities or developmental delays with the extraordinary requirements of military life.
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